Thoughts on Database Design
I am most known in the industry for my abilities related to writing automated calibration procedures. I have created projects in VB, Lab View, MET/CAL®, MUDCATS, C#, C++, and RMB, just to name a few. […]
Automation Corner
SOA/CMC Editor & Search Tools
Over the past four years, we at Cal Lab Solutions have been heads-down coding and designing new features for Metrology.NET®. Our goal has been to Make Metrology Better! The key members of our team are […]
Creating a Metrology Taxonomy
by Michael Schwartz & David Zajac Metrology is the science of measurement. For thousands of years we have been creating newer and better ways of measuring things, but in all that time, metrology still lacks […]
Uncertainty Calculations That Excel!
The other day I read an article titled “Five easy steps for adding measurement uncertainties to your calibration data.” It described a very easy process of copying cells from one Microsoft Excel® file to another, […]
Calibration Lab Vectors of Vulnerability
by Marcus Vickers No, I am not talking about RF & Microwave calibration! In this context I am talking about the Vectors of Vulnerability through the calibration lab as it relates to Information Technology (IT) […]
Hacker Crackdown
I was recently on the road visiting my customers both new and old. During this trip I also wanted to check in with those customers we quoted but never got an actual purchase order from. […]
Interfacing with Instrumentation
Ever since I got into the metrology field, I have witnessed several changes related to how we interface with the test equipment. In the 1980s, there was very little automation; all the standards I had […]
Metrology, NOSQL & REST
The other day I had a frustrating conversation with a longtime friend and fellow developer related to metrology database design. My company built a system called Metrology.NET™ and designed it to work with any database […]